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This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Check out astronauts' views of eclipses, northern lights, storms, and Earth's grandest landscapes. Every year, the International Space Station produces some of the world's best photography .
List of astronauts educated at the United States Naval Academy; Canadian Astronaut Corps; List of Chinese astronauts; List of Indian astronauts; List of Japanese astronauts. JAXA Astronaut Corps; List of cosmonauts. Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps; List of European astronauts. European Astronaut Corps. 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group; List ...
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
Related: Astronauts Have Already Been in Space for Over 6 Months.Now Their Return Has Been Delayed Again, NASA Says. NASA announced earlier this week that the spacecraft that will ferry four ...
With the arrival of three people to the International Space Station on Wednesday – NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner – there are now a record ...
He is the first astronaut from Sicily Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015 Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first ...
With the arrival of a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station on Wednesday, there are now 19 people orbiting the Earth — a new world record.